PMO Management
At Level Three of the PMO career path, the focuses switching to the management of PMOs.
Level three roles include PMO Managers and PMO Leads and at this level we see PMO Managers working in Portfolio Management Offices; Programme Offices and Project Offices so learning and development at this level covers all of these.
Depending on the type of PMO bring managed there will be different levels of seniority involved, for example, a manager of a Portfolio Office would likely be more experienced than that of a manager of a Project Office.
P3O Practitioner
The P3O Practitioner course is the follow on to P3O Foundation – you must have already passed your Foundation level before taking this course.
This is a two-day course and includes the examination on the final day.
It’s a course which is certified by Peoplecert and AXELOS, so you’ll receive a formal qualification and a certification if you pass the course.
With this course:
- You’ll focus on the high level of how to implement and operate a P3O.
- You’ll gain an understanding of the current best practice of using certain tools and techniques across project, programme and portfolio type PMOs.
- You’ll gain a greater understanding of the P3O roles that exist.
PMO practitioners often taken this course alongside the P3O Foundation, making it a 5 day course in total.
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Specialist PMO Courses
PMO Learning has a number of specialist PMO courses – with more being added all the time.
Our specialist courses are designed to meet specific challenge areas PMO practitioners have.
Courses include areas such as Agile PMO; Benefits Management; Coaching and Setting Up PMOs.
Our specialist courses tend to be one or two days long and are available both in the open public schedules and available in-house.
Courses are created by PMO Learning alongside leading experts in their field to create unique and practical classes totally focused on the PMO profession.
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